February 26, 2009

• Dead Time, Part II:

  Midnight

  "Dead time lasts for one hour-- from half an hour before midnight to half an hour after midnight. The half-hour before midnight is for doin' good. The half-hour after midnight is for doin' evil...."

  -- Glenna Whitley, "Voodoo Justice"

  

  From the Curriculum Vitae
  of Patrick McGee:

  "Theory and the Common
   from Marx to Badiou
      (Palgrave 2009, scheduled for
     March 31 publication)"
  
  Thanks for the warning.

  From the publisher: Using a method that combines analysis, memoir, and polemic, McGee writes experimentally about a series of thinkers who ruptured linguistic and social hierarchies, from Marx, to Gramsci, to Badiou. About the Author Patrick McGee is McElveen Professor of English at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.  Table of Contents Theory Postmortem: Derrida Political Sense and Sensibility: Gramsci to Bourdieu Genealogies of Common Sense: Marx and Nietzsche Folklores of the Future: Wilde and Lawrence The Transcendental Ordinary: Wittgenstein to Badiou Related Categories Found in: Cultural Theory, Literary Theory & Criticism, Ethics

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